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by thih9 1253 days ago
> you're going to jump through a lot more hoops than someone with an ancient email and a residential ip address.

I understand this kind of reasoning.

At the same time I see a potential to snowball. This will encourage people to move away from weird addresses. Which will make it an even more effective filter and will justify stricter measures. So more people will move away. Etc.

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Thats a really good point. I'm working through this space right now so I'm kind of myopic to stuff like this.

I use a self hosted VPN (digiOcean); but under duress, I'd be a jerk to me. tbh; most sites are, lol. I've given up youtube and google because I am reCaptcha'd to death...

To your actual point, I don't think it would be a deal killer per se in implementation. Weirdo@Weirdo.com isn't blocked because they show up in troys list of known emails.

Fakebook@Weirdo.com is suspicious in this model because it has not been seen before.